Itanium® Architecture for Programmers: Understanding 64-Bit Processors and EPIC Principles

Chapter 11

A1:	Except for branching and procedure calls, instructions are needed according to a uniformly ascending sequence of addresses. Data may be accessed in many ways: pseudorandomly, in ascending address sequence, in descending sequence, etc.
A2:	The linker can organize the data segment(s) to be reachable with the fewest independent pointers, can copy either user-supplied or library routines inline, and can detect other opportunities for optimization across the entire application. Usually compilers treat each source file as an independent entity.
A3:	Consider the way the compares and predicate values will work.
A4:	80.
A9:	We showed one way with our exploration of the com_f.f program in the chapter.
A10:	Expand upon the following: changing ...